A journey to search my soul

This is a blog of my personal collections. The purpose of this blog is to educate myself and public in regards to antiquities especially related to religion and calligraphy. I welcome everyone to input their feedback in this blog which they think would be helpful. I do not watermark the photos in this blog so everyone is free to use them as long as they are not used for illegal and unethical reasons. I appreciate if you could notify me if you plan to use any of the photos here. Enjoy browsing!!

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

This is my another gold coin from Sultan Alaudin Riayat Shah era. He was the son
of the last Malacca Sultan, Sultan Mahmud Shah who fled from Malacca
after the invasion of Portugese. He became the first ruler of Johor
Empire in 1527CE.he set up his capital at Johor Lama situated on the
Johor river. He promoted foreign trade and was able to attract a fair
amount of commerce. However Johor was captured by Acheh in 1564CE and
became its vassal state until the collapse of the Acheh Empire in
1641CE.

Looking at the Arabic calligraphy used, its quite tricky as the
calligraphy is compressed to fit on the coin face. However it has the
resemblance to Thuluth & Sini. Or probably this is how Malay
calligraphy was derived. I noticed also similar calligraphy was used on
the tombstone ( pic edited from artmelayu.bs) of the same Sultan in
Johor except all vertical alphabets were elongated to fill the column.

As for this coin, there are some errors in the words used.
Notice the Sultan is written ثلطان instead of سلطان
There is also a missing ي in the word Al mu'minin and missing ين in Aladdin
My other coin is in below linkAntique Mas Johor

Octagonal gold coin ( Mas) under the rule of Johor Sultan Alaudin Riayat
Shah 1 ( 1527-1564AD). This coin is heavily covered with patina. I
prefer to keep it this way rather than cleaning it away.

Similar coin was sold for SGD3000 ( USD2200) in Lot 189 in
the Collectibles Auction Asia (CAA) Auction 5/2015 held on 18 April 2015 at
Landmark Village Hotel, Singapore.